Cruise passengers arriving in Southampton can now hop off a ship and straight into a hire car at Europcar’s new City Cruise Terminal location. For the ultimate in convenience, Europcar offers travellers a meet and greet service, ensuring their car is ready and waiting when they hit dry land.

Southampton is the UK’s cruise capital with over 1.4 million passengers expected to pass through the port in 2011. Located in the Western Docks City Cruise Terminal is Southampton’s largest cruise ship terminal. Europcar’s new location ensures cruise passengers enjoy a premium car hire experience as they disembark in the UK. Any customer with a car hire booking will be greeted by a Europcar representative and shown to their car – no queues, no fuss.

“As Europe’s leading car hire company, we want to provide travellers with the ultimate in convenience, choice, simplicity and quality as standard,” confirmed Ken McCall, Managing Director, Europcar UK. “Our new City Cruise Terminal means cruise passengers can simply step off the ship and into a Europcar vehicle, allowing them to continue their journey in comfort.

City.Mobi

Also in Europe today, City.Mobi is celebrating the success of its new guide to London.

City.Mobi offers the most comprehensive mobile travel guides available, with over 800 cities in 200 countries listed. Each is developed by the City.Mobi team to combine into a single global travel directory.

However, each city retains its own mobile identity via a dedicated domain. Already on offer are Brussels.Mobi, Paris.Mobi, Sanfrancisco.Mobi and Sydney.Mobi.

London.Mobi is the latest in this illustrious line up, offering click to call functionality – which means no scribbling down telephone numbers.

Most entries are also linked to websites where users can quickly access more detailed information if needed.

Other key features include information on accommodation, restaurants, attractions, entertainment, nightlife, shopping, and transport.

City.Mobi guides include user reviews and traveller utilities such as a translation guide, currency converter, news and local weather guide.

Europcar offers the most flexible pick up and drop off locations and services in the UK, utilising an outstanding fleet including vans, family and prestige vehicles. Opening hours at Europcar’s Southampton City Cruise Terminal complement the city branch – opening 8am -6pm Monday to Friday and 8am – 1pm Saturday and Sunday.